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September 14, 1984 • Vol. 15, No. 37 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas'
Gay groups
stand to gain
from new fed
regulation
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay health and community service
groups that qualify for federal tax-exempt
status could be the potential beneficiaries of
thousands of dollars in contributions by
federal employees under a new government
regulation that goes into effect Monday.
The regulation, which sets procedures for
the federal government's annual charity
drive known as the Combined Federal
Campaign, states that government
employees who select a payroll deduction
plan as means of giving to a charity can
- designate any organizntion as the recipient
- of their donations so long as the
organization holds an IRS tax-exempt status
known as a "501 (c)(3)" deduction and
provides a service relating to "health" and
human "welfare."
Among the local groups that appear to be
elibigle for federal employee donations
under the regulation are the Whitman-
Walker Clinic and its AIDS Education
Fund. The D.C. Gay Community Center
maalso yquali.fy.
Prior to the new regulation, federal
employees were limited to about. 200
organizations for which they could make a
contribution. Those groups were selected by
a private contracting organization—in the
Washington area, The United Way of the
National Capital Area—which invited
eharitable gronps to apply and then
approved or rejected applicants:
The new regulation was promulgated by
the government's Office of Personnel
Management after a decision by the United
States District Court for the District of
Columbia- declared the previous
regulation—which allowed the contracting
firm to choose the charities—as
unconstitutional. The decision resulted from
a lawsuit filed by the National Association
for the Advaficement of Colored People.
"My God, that's really good news," said
Jim Graham, executive director of the
Whitman-Walker Clinic, when told of the
regulation.
Graham, who said he was unaware of the
new rule, said he will take immediate steps
to determine how Whitman-Walker will
inform the Gay community about its
eligibility in the program and to urge Gay
federal employees to consider contributing
to the clinic.
Graham said such contributions could
Continued on page 12
• Gentrification tension 5
Kennedy-Agnos fund-raiser 6
• Police get 'warning' 7
Bittersweet Barr 19
lasses & Curses 23
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Mayor keeps Zampatori on ABC board
by Lisa M. Keen
Mayor Barry Wednesday night
renominated activist Frank J. Zampatori Jr.
to the city's influential Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, ending several weeks of
rumors and speculation that the mayor is
dissatisfied with Zampatori's degree of
loyalty.
City Council Chairman David Clarke
introduced four of the mayor's nominations
for the newly re-formed ABC board to
Council Wednesday night. In addition to
Zampatori, who has served on the board
since August 1981, the mayor renominated
Marlene L. Johnson and nominated Harry
Thomas, a retired assistant chief of public
affairs in the Department of Interior, and
Michael S. Levy, an assistant corporation
counsel.
Annette Samuels, the mayor's press
spokeswoman, said the mayor is expected to
make the fifth nomination by today.
Samuels said she did not know who the
inayor was considering for the fifth slot.
Zampatori's renomination comes despite
claims by sources familiar with the Barry
administration, who asked not to be
identified, that the mayor had been leaning
,"strongly" against renominating him.
According to those sources, Barry and some
of his long-time supporters in the Gay
conimimity believed Zampatori had
become too critical of the Barry
administration in the past two years.
Zampatori, in a phone interview with the
Blade, said he was "able to discount some of
the rumors floating around," and said he
was "pleased that the mayor looked at my
record and looked at some of the letters of
support that came in on my behalf."
Zampatori saidhe received more than 50
letters and mailgrams signed by a total of
155 people in support of his renomination
to the ABC board. Copies of those letters, he
said, had been sent to the mayor by the
senders.
"The mayor has shown that if he gets the
information he's willing to look at all sides,"
said Zampatori, who declined to speculate
on who he believed was dksatisfied with his
loyalty to the mayor.
Gay leaders in and out of the Barry
administration reacted happily yesterday at
the news of Zampatori's renomination,
including BM Bogan, president of the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club who had
applied for a seat on the board and was
considered by many to be Zampatori's key
challenger for a position.
Bogan said he applied for the position
only because he believed the mayor was
looking to appoint an entirely new board
and that he wanted to make sure the mayor
had an option to choose from the Gay
community.
"Anytime appointments are considered,
Frank J. Zampatori Jr.
incumbents have an edge," said Bogan,
"especially when you need to make a
transition from an old to a new board."
Bogan said he believes the mayor probably
also considered which wards Zampatori
and Bogan represent in making his choice.
Continued on page 12
Brandt wants new research consent form
• by Mark Scott
Assistant Secretary for Health Dr.
Edward Brandt Jr. notified Gay leaders
Monday that he has sent out a model
"infEvmed consent" form designed for mein
Public Health Service-funded AIDS
• research and has urged that it be uniformly
adopted to protect the confidentiality of
AIDS 'research participants.
• Brandt's recommended consent form,
detailed in a memo sent to PITS agencies
and AIDS offi 'Ms last week was unveiled
as apprehension was growing in the GAY
community that the soon-to-be-readyblood
test for the HTLV-111 antibody might be
used to identify and discriminate against
Gay men.
Gaining Brandt's official backing for such
a model informed consent form was a key
part of a larger strategy, designed by the
National Gay Task Force and the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, to keep
Gay men's names safe from subpoena by
court and clandestine leaks, said Jeff Levi,
Washington director of NGTF.
Although Brandt's recommendation is
not legally binding, Gay leaders told the
Blade they feel it will carry considerable
weight with AIDS researchers and
described it as an important step in
protecting the confidentiality of thousands
of Gay men involved in AIDS research.
"It will be fairly influential in the research
Dr. Edward Brandt Jr.
community," said Levi, noting that the vast
majority of AIDS research gets PITS
funding.
"With so many questions still
unanswered about the significance of a
positive test for HTLV-III antibodies," said
Tim Sweeney, executive director of LLDEF
in a news release Wednesday, "the potential
for abuse of those results...requires that
researchers make clear their commitment to
confidentiality and that participants in
research enter a study fully informed of the
risks of participation?'
Large percentages of Gay men who were
given the HTLV test in tests in San
Francisco and New York were shown to
carry the 'antibody for the HTLV-111 virus in
their blood. The virus has been identified as
the "probable cause" of AIDS by
researchers.
Leaders of LLDEF and NGTF began
pressing for a model informed consent form
because of fears that many AIDS studies'
consent forms did not adequately spell out
the risks to confidentiality, Levi aid.
Those fears increased when Dr. James
Curran, director of the Centers for Disease
Control's AIDS Task Force, issued a memo
two months ago recommending an
interstate registry of people who test positive
for the HTLV-III antibody.
The form Brandt has proposed states that
all test results will be kept "strictly
confidential" but that there is a "remote
possibility that others authorized by law
may request access," including the
Congress, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administratimi [which administers the
nation's blood banks] state health officials,
and the courts.
"In the nnlikely event that there is a
request or a court order to disclose my name
or information linking me to my test,"the
Continued on page 13

-- •
September 14, 1984 • Vol. 15, No. 37 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas'
Gay groups
stand to gain
from new fed
regulation
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay health and community service
groups that qualify for federal tax-exempt
status could be the potential beneficiaries of
thousands of dollars in contributions by
federal employees under a new government
regulation that goes into effect Monday.
The regulation, which sets procedures for
the federal government's annual charity
drive known as the Combined Federal
Campaign, states that government
employees who select a payroll deduction
plan as means of giving to a charity can
- designate any organizntion as the recipient
- of their donations so long as the
organization holds an IRS tax-exempt status
known as a "501 (c)(3)" deduction and
provides a service relating to "health" and
human "welfare."
Among the local groups that appear to be
elibigle for federal employee donations
under the regulation are the Whitman-
Walker Clinic and its AIDS Education
Fund. The D.C. Gay Community Center
maalso yquali.fy.
Prior to the new regulation, federal
employees were limited to about. 200
organizations for which they could make a
contribution. Those groups were selected by
a private contracting organization—in the
Washington area, The United Way of the
National Capital Area—which invited
eharitable gronps to apply and then
approved or rejected applicants:
The new regulation was promulgated by
the government's Office of Personnel
Management after a decision by the United
States District Court for the District of
Columbia- declared the previous
regulation—which allowed the contracting
firm to choose the charities—as
unconstitutional. The decision resulted from
a lawsuit filed by the National Association
for the Advaficement of Colored People.
"My God, that's really good news," said
Jim Graham, executive director of the
Whitman-Walker Clinic, when told of the
regulation.
Graham, who said he was unaware of the
new rule, said he will take immediate steps
to determine how Whitman-Walker will
inform the Gay community about its
eligibility in the program and to urge Gay
federal employees to consider contributing
to the clinic.
Graham said such contributions could
Continued on page 12
• Gentrification tension 5
Kennedy-Agnos fund-raiser 6
• Police get 'warning' 7
Bittersweet Barr 19
lasses & Curses 23
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Mayor keeps Zampatori on ABC board
by Lisa M. Keen
Mayor Barry Wednesday night
renominated activist Frank J. Zampatori Jr.
to the city's influential Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, ending several weeks of
rumors and speculation that the mayor is
dissatisfied with Zampatori's degree of
loyalty.
City Council Chairman David Clarke
introduced four of the mayor's nominations
for the newly re-formed ABC board to
Council Wednesday night. In addition to
Zampatori, who has served on the board
since August 1981, the mayor renominated
Marlene L. Johnson and nominated Harry
Thomas, a retired assistant chief of public
affairs in the Department of Interior, and
Michael S. Levy, an assistant corporation
counsel.
Annette Samuels, the mayor's press
spokeswoman, said the mayor is expected to
make the fifth nomination by today.
Samuels said she did not know who the
inayor was considering for the fifth slot.
Zampatori's renomination comes despite
claims by sources familiar with the Barry
administration, who asked not to be
identified, that the mayor had been leaning
,"strongly" against renominating him.
According to those sources, Barry and some
of his long-time supporters in the Gay
conimimity believed Zampatori had
become too critical of the Barry
administration in the past two years.
Zampatori, in a phone interview with the
Blade, said he was "able to discount some of
the rumors floating around," and said he
was "pleased that the mayor looked at my
record and looked at some of the letters of
support that came in on my behalf."
Zampatori saidhe received more than 50
letters and mailgrams signed by a total of
155 people in support of his renomination
to the ABC board. Copies of those letters, he
said, had been sent to the mayor by the
senders.
"The mayor has shown that if he gets the
information he's willing to look at all sides,"
said Zampatori, who declined to speculate
on who he believed was dksatisfied with his
loyalty to the mayor.
Gay leaders in and out of the Barry
administration reacted happily yesterday at
the news of Zampatori's renomination,
including BM Bogan, president of the
Gertrude Stein Democratic Club who had
applied for a seat on the board and was
considered by many to be Zampatori's key
challenger for a position.
Bogan said he applied for the position
only because he believed the mayor was
looking to appoint an entirely new board
and that he wanted to make sure the mayor
had an option to choose from the Gay
community.
"Anytime appointments are considered,
Frank J. Zampatori Jr.
incumbents have an edge," said Bogan,
"especially when you need to make a
transition from an old to a new board."
Bogan said he believes the mayor probably
also considered which wards Zampatori
and Bogan represent in making his choice.
Continued on page 12
Brandt wants new research consent form
• by Mark Scott
Assistant Secretary for Health Dr.
Edward Brandt Jr. notified Gay leaders
Monday that he has sent out a model
"infEvmed consent" form designed for mein
Public Health Service-funded AIDS
• research and has urged that it be uniformly
adopted to protect the confidentiality of
AIDS 'research participants.
• Brandt's recommended consent form,
detailed in a memo sent to PITS agencies
and AIDS offi 'Ms last week was unveiled
as apprehension was growing in the GAY
community that the soon-to-be-readyblood
test for the HTLV-111 antibody might be
used to identify and discriminate against
Gay men.
Gaining Brandt's official backing for such
a model informed consent form was a key
part of a larger strategy, designed by the
National Gay Task Force and the Lambda
Legal Defense and Education Fund, to keep
Gay men's names safe from subpoena by
court and clandestine leaks, said Jeff Levi,
Washington director of NGTF.
Although Brandt's recommendation is
not legally binding, Gay leaders told the
Blade they feel it will carry considerable
weight with AIDS researchers and
described it as an important step in
protecting the confidentiality of thousands
of Gay men involved in AIDS research.
"It will be fairly influential in the research
Dr. Edward Brandt Jr.
community," said Levi, noting that the vast
majority of AIDS research gets PITS
funding.
"With so many questions still
unanswered about the significance of a
positive test for HTLV-III antibodies," said
Tim Sweeney, executive director of LLDEF
in a news release Wednesday, "the potential
for abuse of those results...requires that
researchers make clear their commitment to
confidentiality and that participants in
research enter a study fully informed of the
risks of participation?'
Large percentages of Gay men who were
given the HTLV test in tests in San
Francisco and New York were shown to
carry the 'antibody for the HTLV-111 virus in
their blood. The virus has been identified as
the "probable cause" of AIDS by
researchers.
Leaders of LLDEF and NGTF began
pressing for a model informed consent form
because of fears that many AIDS studies'
consent forms did not adequately spell out
the risks to confidentiality, Levi aid.
Those fears increased when Dr. James
Curran, director of the Centers for Disease
Control's AIDS Task Force, issued a memo
two months ago recommending an
interstate registry of people who test positive
for the HTLV-III antibody.
The form Brandt has proposed states that
all test results will be kept "strictly
confidential" but that there is a "remote
possibility that others authorized by law
may request access," including the
Congress, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administratimi [which administers the
nation's blood banks] state health officials,
and the courts.
"In the nnlikely event that there is a
request or a court order to disclose my name
or information linking me to my test,"the
Continued on page 13